On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Vince Coppola wrote:
 
> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Ian Watson wrote:
>
> > Hello all..:)
> >
> > I also have a question about raising a queen..I have a buchfast
> > colony..and I made up a five frame nuc.  I checked carefully to make sure
> > the queen didnt come with it....Now i have just checked it after about 8-9
> > days..and there are at least 6 queen cups...i see the curled up larva
> > covered with royal jelly....Success!!!!
>
>         Success ? Perhaps. What you have are emergency cells. Doolittle
> told us 100 years ago that these produce inferior queens.
>
Umm...How do you know they are emergency cells?....what do they look
like?..how are they different from the "right" kind of queen cells?
 
                          Ian Watson
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